Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.1
Points
5.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
33564
Points per Word
0.000149
Page Count
167
Points per Page
0.02994
Description
This fictionalized novel is an account of the author's years growing up during the civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s, when African Americans were struggling to attain equality, and with his father, a lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.